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hard-bitten
[ hahrd-bit-n ]
adjective
- tough; stubborn.
- conditioned by battle or struggle:
a hard-bitten army.
- grim or severe in judgment or attitude:
a hard-bitten old teacher.
hard-bitten
adjective
- tough and realistic
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hard-bitten1
Example Sentences
On the frigid coast of Maine, hard-bitten b***hes turn out to be the battered survivors in a brutal world of tradeoffs.
Old sceptics, hard-bitten by a quarter of a century of nothingness, were beginning to turn.
He is hard-bitten by reality in these games, after all.
A lieutenant had approached, an older man, hard-bitten by years in the desert, with a full beard—save for a large, horizontal scar across his left cheek.
Dip into the dad-canon iconography of Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series, of which more than 40 hard-bitten installments have been released since the early 1970s?
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